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“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. 

THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL 

ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others

Stories … They are the building blocks of our lives. They are our memories. They are how we come to know our history. They are our escapism and entertainment. Some fact, some fiction, and some are a clever little mix.

These thirty-one stories are fiction. Short and scary. Delivered to you in small, terrifying bursts, much the way you’d experience each individual room in a haunted-house attraction. They were specifically written to be enjoyed by both the not-too-young and old alike. Inside, you’ll find horror, drama, even a few laughs—and zombies. Zombies by the ton. Gnawing, gnashing, stumbling, and staring … Right. At. You. Waiting … for a bite-sized offering.

The authors and other contributors to this book: Ted Nulty, W. J. Lundy, Brian Parker, A. R. Shaw, Michael Robertson, John Gregory Hancock, William Allen, Shawn Chesser, Armand Rosamilia, Heath Stallcup, Saul Tanpepper, Jack Wallen, Michelle Bryan, P. Mark DeBryan, S. G. Lee, James Dean, Shannon Walters, Shaun Phelps, Joseph Cautilli and Marisha Cautilli, Edward P. Cardillo, Adrianne Lemke, J. Rudolph, Mike Evans, Veronica Smith, Toni L. H. Boughton, H. J. Harry, Jeffrey Clare, T. W. Piperbrook, Chris Bostic, Rich Baker, Cedric Nye, Greg P. Ferrell, Allen Gamboa, Lori Fontanez, Andrew Kish, E .S. Oakes, André Vazquez Jr. (cover artist), Mysti Holsinger-Stitt (proofreader), and Sara Jones (editor).

The most spine-tingling suspense stories from the colonial era—including Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and H. P. Lovecraft, and many more

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the colonial era’s stifling religion, and its dark and threatening woods.

Today the best-known tale of colonial horror is Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, although Irving’s story is probably best known today from various movie versions it has inspired. Colonial horror tales of other prominent American authors—Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper among them—are overshadowed by their bestsellers, and are difficult to find in modern libraries. Many other pioneers of American horror fiction are presented afresh in this breathtaking volume for today’s public readers.

Some will have heard the names of Increase and Cotton Mather in association with the Salem witch trials, but will not have sought out their contemporary accounts of what were viewed as supernatural events. By bringing these writers to the attention of the contemporary readers, this collection will help bring their names—and their work—back from the dead.

The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes

As an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Philip K. Dick to Aldous Huxley. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, urban sprawl, and diversity, one can argue that Los Angeles is already so weird, surreal, irrational, and mythic that any fiction emerging from this place should be considered speculative.

So, bestselling author Denise Hamilton commissioned some stories and did exactly that. In Speculative Los Angeles, fourteen of the city’s most prophetic voices reimagine the city in very different ways. In this audiobook, you’ll encounter twenty-first-century changelings, dirigibles plying the suburban skies, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia, beachfront property in Century City, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, and an alternate LA where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization.

As with our city-based Akashic Noir Series, each story in Speculative Los Angeles is set in a distinct neighborhood filled with local color, landmarks, and flavor. Since the best speculative fiction provides a wormhole into other worlds while also commenting on our own, that is exactly what you’ll find here.

Featuring brand-new stories by: Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Stephen Blackmoore, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, Luis J. Rodriguez, A. G. Lombardo, Kathleen Kaufman, and S. Qiouyi Lu



It’s midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft.

Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.

These fourteen tales, plays, and poems, gleaned from cultures around the world, range from wickedly comic to deathly serious, from New England reserve to Gallic passion. This volume of late-night listening is a witch’s brew of readings and dramatizations seasoned tastefully, and—where appropriate—not so tastefully, with music and sound effects, under the direction of award-winning producer Yuri Rasovsky and his coven of twenty-odd—some very odd—performers.

Shut your eyes and give your mind a listen—if you dare.

Enjoy a timeless collection of classic Christmas tales, all available in one audiobook! Classic Christmas Tales by Famous Authors, Volume 1 includes:

A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe

Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn influenced by Poe’s genius and produced their own popular tales of supernatural literature. This collection features masterful tales of terror by authors who, by and large, are little-remembered for their writing in this genre. Even Bram Stoker, whose Dracula may be said to be the most popular horror novel of all time, is not known as a writer of short fiction.

Distinguished editor Leslie S. Klinger is a world-renowned authority on those twin icons of the Victorian age, Sherlock Holmes and Dracula. His studies into the forefathers of those giants led him to a broader fascination with writers of supernatural literature of the nineteenth century. The stories in this collection have been selected by him for their impact. Each is preceded by a brief biography of the author and an overview of his or her literary career and is annotated to explain obscure references.

Read on, now, perhaps with a flickering candle or flashlight at hand …

Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Théophile Gautier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lafcadio Hearn, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, and many others

Many Christians still love to read the classic sermons and devotionals of the great nineteenth-century English preacher Charles H. Spurgeon. But there were many other Christian writers of the same era who also penned inspired devotionals.

Faith of Our Fathers will enrich and strengthen your spiritual life and walk with the Lord as you enjoy readings from

This collection of timeless treasures contains one hundred classic devotionals from twenty-three inspired writers read for a modern audience by the unique and emotive voice of British narrator Christopher Glyn.

The award-winning and critically acclaimed Wireless Theatre Company strives to keep radio theater alive and well. From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume:

Spook Squad by Jim Spiers, directed by Jack Bowman

2010: Space Commander! by Stuart Price, directed by David Beck

Dream On by Paul Ekert, directed by Tom Brazier

The Grimm of Stottesden Hall, written and directed by Stuart Price

Phonophobia by Jack Bowman and Robert Valentine, directed by Tom Brazier

Medusa on the Beach by Marty Ross

The Youth of Old Age, written and directed by Stuart Price

Devon Girl by Zalie Burrow, directed by Cherry Cookson

Radio Hoohah, written and directed by Octavia MacKenzie and Ashley McGuire

Angels in the Dark, written and directed by Susan Casanove

From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume:

We Are the BBC by Susan Casanove, directed by Jack Bowman

Rob Sterling Davies is on the crest of a wave—and apparently Stephen Fry’s new best friend. But all isn’t quite as it seems.

We Are Not the BBC by Susan Casanove, directed by Jack Bowman

Things start to look up for the members of an amateur dramatics society when a visiting celebrity steps in and plays the lead role.

No Cause for Alarm by Gareth Rubin

No Cause for Alarm is a silly play. It has no comment to make about the human condition, love in the twenty-first century, or the Iraq war.

Stage Fright by Lynn Howes, directed by Emma Taylor

Stage Fright charts the struggle for supremacy between three actors appearing in a play together.

The Mighty Carlins by Collin Doyle, directed by Paul Blinkhorn

On the anniversary of his wife’s death, Leo Carlin and his two sons come together for their traditional night of sharing good and bad memories.

Blood and Stone by Marty Ross, directed by Mariele Runacre Temple

The “Bloody Lady of Cachtice” was bricked up in her own castle for murder. Why then does the young Katya want a job looking after the countess?

The St. Valentine’s Day Murder written and directed by Peter Davis

It’s Valentine’s Day, but events turn less than romantic when one of the members of a dating site is murdered.

Laying Ghosts by Clare Reddaway, directed by Emily Wright

When Connie’s beloved husband Jack dies, Connie hopes that her only son, Gary, will console her. Gary, however, has other plans.

Emails from Abroad by Julia Messenger and Shirley Mawer

Emails from Abroad is a play based on travels abroad relayed by emails between the ingenuous first-time traveler and her disillusioned home-bound sister.

The Trial of Sherlock Holmes by Peter Davis and Matthew Woodcock

Charged with endangering the public, Holmes is forced to relive some of his most bizarre cases.

Do you want to radically disrupt your mindset and think bigger? Do you feel it on your fingertips, just out of reach? Do you find yourself striving to break through the seams to success but just can’t push through the box you live in?

The real you has an urge—and ability—to live in a much larger way. Transform your thoughts, your life, and your actions to achieve greatness … one thought at a time. This powerful audio program featuring top motivational speakers and thought leaders will teach you steps to increase confidence and motivation to reach your goals.

In Thinking Big Les Brown will infuse you with inspiration and a sense of empowerment so you can choose your future. Understand the link between motivation and accomplishment with Zig Ziglar. Be a student of Chris Widener and learn what is needed to influence others around you. Discover proven strategies to break through your limiting beliefs and achieve greatness with Dr. Larry Iverson.

Don’t wait another day to change your thought process from a self-imposed limited one to one where your possibilities are boundless. Begin Thinking Big today!

A continuation of the popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky, contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel, and others.

With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates the holiday spirit.

This is Christmas à la française—delicious, intense, and unexpected, proving that nobody does Christmas like the French.

The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964

This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the men and women who have shaped the body and heart of modern science fiction; their brilliantly imaginative creations continue to inspire and astound new generations of writers and fans.

Robert Heinlein in “The Roads Must Roll” describes an industrial civilization of the future caught up in the deadly flaws of its own complexity. “Country of the Kind,” by Damon Knight, is a frightening portrayal of biological mutation. “Nightfall,” by Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest stories in the science fiction field, is the story of a planet where the sun sets only once every millennium and is a chilling study in mass psychology.

Originally published in 1970 to honor those writers and their stories that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame, Vol. 1, was the book that introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction. Too long unavailable, this new edition will treasured by all science fiction fans everywhere.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, includes the following:

Introduction by Robert Silverberg

“A Martian Odyssey” by Stanley G. Weinbaum“Twilight” by John W. Campbell“Helen O’Loy” by Lester del Rey“The Roads Must Roll” by Robert A. Heinlein“Microcosmic God” by Theodore Sturgeon“Nightfall” by Isaac Asimov“The Weapon Shop” by A. E. van Vogt“Mimsy Were the Borogoves” by Lewis Padgett“Huddling Place” by Clifford D. Simak“Arena” by Fredric Brown“First Contact” by Murray Leinster“That Only a Mother” by Judith Merril“Scanners Live in Vain” by Cordwainer Smith“Mars Is Heaven!” by Ray Bradbury“The Little Black Bag” by C. M. Kornbluth“Born of Man and Woman” by Richard Matheson“Coming Attraction” by Fritz Leiber“The Quest for Saint Aquin” by Anthony Boucher“Surface Tension” by James Blish“The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke“It’s a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby“The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin“Fondly Fahrenheit” by Alfred Bester“The Country of the Kind” Damon Knight“Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes“A Rose for Ecclesiastes” by Roger Zelazny

Eleven essential classics in one volume

This last volume in the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964 contains eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

This volume contains the following:

Introduction by Ben Bova

The Martian Way by Isaac Asimov

Earthman, Come Home by James Blish

Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys

The Spectre General by Theodore Cogswell

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

The Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl

The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz

E for Effort by T. L. Sherred

In Hiding by Wilmar H. Shiras

The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak

The Moon Moth by Jack Vance

This is a collection of timeless westerns from some of the most well known authors of the genre.

Included here are the following stories: “The Little Gold Miners” by Joaquin Miller, “Bulger’s Reputation” by Bret Harte, “The Leaf of Red Rose” by W. H. H. Murray, “The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch” by Ambrose Bierce, “The Californian’s Tale” by Mark Twain, “Twelve O’Clock” by Stephen Crane, “The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo” by Gertrude Atherton, “A Deal in Wheat” by Frank Norris, “The Caballero’s Way” by O. Henry, “On the Divide” by Willa Cather, “Timberline” by Owen Wister, “The Passing of Black Eagle” by O. Henry, “Ananias Green” by B. M. Bower, “Lightning” by Zane Grey, “The Pardon of Becky Day” by John Fox, and “The Laughter of Slim Malone” by Max Brand.

This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, and The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry.

Enjoy the traditions of holidays past with this classic collection of fun and touching stories.

Nella Braddy (1894–1973), a pioneer among female editors, compiled this seven-story collection and published Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places in 1922. It features seven authors: Egerton Castle, Stephen Crane, Selma Lagerlöf, Bret Harte, Thomas Hardy, O. Henry, and W. H. Hudson. It’s a stellar group.

Braddy went on to write and edit more articles and books, including two more in the Masterpieces of Adventure series, one focused on Helen Keller’s breakthrough teacher, Anna Sullivan Macy, and a biography of Rudyard Kipling.

Once inside Stories of Desert Places, though, listeners will soon realize that Braddy treats the idea of “desert” very loosely. Perhaps it’s about what’s in a protagonist’s mind or heart, rather than the actual setting of the story that Braddy felt evoked the idea of “desert.”

It’s left to us to find the “desert”—physical or metaphorical—of an eastern European castle on a snowy night, somewhere in the American West, Norway, early day California, a rainy night in England, in Texas near the Rio Grande, and Argentina. In these stories, people strive, often foolishly, and yet they persevere in unexpected ways.

Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind, that the moonlight is playing tricks on your eyes, that it’s only the swirling mist you see. But when you hear the graveyard gate clang shut, the dead have something to say. Here are their stories …